We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Server Automation and SaltStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The policy and compliance monitoring of devices and the software deployment are most valuable."
"It is user-friendly, and the performance is also good. It is a convenient product"
"While I don't think you can ever have full visibility and control, Intune certainly allows us to see the applications being used and tells us if things like Windows patches aren't applied to machines. It does a good job. That visibility makes life a little easier."
"Internet-based access with security is what I have found to be most valuable. It is also a stable and scalable solution."
"We can manage and standardize security across your environment, identify problems, receive alerts, and so on. That's its purpose, and that's also why it's so good."
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"Stable product that's easy to set up compared to other MDM products."
"Based on my experience, I find Intune very flexible for managing Windows devices. We can use scripting, and we can make use of the self-service portal or the company portal to publish some of the applications for Windows."
"As this solution provides strong support and has multiple use cases, it is worth the cost."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to remediate quickly and efficiently across a number of IT assets at the same time. It takes away manual efforts from the team to go out and fix those vulnerabilities through patching, conflict updates, etc."
"BladeLogic lets users view the filesystem with minimal authorization to the server."
"It gives us more speed to deliver services and applications, and we rely on security."
"The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously."
"Compliance is also huge... By tying it to Atrium Orchestrator, our workflow tool, we'll be able to have a closed loop where we identify a compliance issue, cut CRs, get them approved, and then be able to execute these CRs and more seamlessly fix these issues on the fly."
"The ability to script and create BL packages to perform various functions. This makes automating our environment relatively easy to do."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"The installation is very easy. However, to be able to configure it you will need special knowledge, such as training or self-studies to have a proper level of security. There are many settings one has to understand before being able to implement Microsoft Intune."
"It just doesn't handle software updates well at all by itself. You need to be a scripting wizard to make those happen properly, or you use third-party tools. The Windows feature updates are very difficult to implement. I would like to see a proprietary built-in remote control tool. I know that they have Team Viewer integrated, but it is not seamless. It would be nice if they had a seamless remote desktop capability directly from the Intune console."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with Apple."
"There can be some added features, such as an improved dashboard. Any new feature that could be a benefit to our customers would be good."
"Sometimes, customers compare it with AirWatch, but the concept of Intune is different from other solutions. It's an application management app. It gets a bit difficult to explain it to customers, but it's not a product limitation. It takes a presale document or presentation to explain it to customers."
"We would like to see support for Chrome and/or devices for Chromebooks."
"The most important thing is reporting. They should improve their reporting. They should give a free hand to users. In SCCM, I can create my own reports. For example, in SCCM, I can create an inventory report for my PC or for all PCs, but in Intune, we don't have an option to create any report. Microsoft claims that Intune is a successor of SCCM, but SCCM is more powerful than Intune. So, they should develop Intune more and make it equivalent to SCCM. Then, their product will be great in the market."
"From a new user's perspective, it may be a little overwhelming because there are quite a few things to look at in the console, however, once you are sort of acclimated and are familiar with your core functions, it's fairly simple and straightforward."
"I would like to see a better methodology for handling REST calls and integration into the APIs. They add new APIs as they add functions, but they've missed some from older components which they still haven't added in. Some of the APIs are there but the CLI calls are not there."
"There is no other functionality available to patch the containers that we need to include."
"Scaling the environment during setup at larger organizations with 10,000 employees gets complicated."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"Resource management on the base servers is sluggish and could be improved."
"Without any knowledge of the product, we used the KB articles to start working. As a result, we definitely did not have full knowledge of BMC BladeLogic... They need to provide a minimum of knowledge with training on YouTube or somewhere else."
"The number of APIs available within the tool needs improvement. At the moment, we have a couple of different scanning tools used within the organization, but only one of those is integrated back into Server Automation. There is another tool that they use in another part of the business where it doesn't have an out-of-the-box adaptor for it. We would have to go and create or develop something bespoke to be able to integrate it with that scanning tool. Whereas, with the other scanning tool, there was an API available. To make it easier, I would like to have more APIs available for different scanning tools within that line of business."
"We've had to increase RAM and CPU processing in order to alleviate some of the sluggishness during patching."
"Web UI."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"It is difficult to set up."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
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BMC TrueSight Server Automation is ranked 12th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews. BMC TrueSight Server Automation is rated 8.2, while SaltStack is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Server Automation writes "Easy to deploy, automatic patching, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". BMC TrueSight Server Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BigFix, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager and BMC TrueSight Orchestration, whereas SaltStack is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, HashiCorp Terraform, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and vCenter Orchestrator. See our BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs. SaltStack report.
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